Say what you will about Aventurine and its PvP-centric MMORPG known as Darkfall, but one thing you can't say is that it doesn't communicate with its player base, even when the news is less than stellar. Lead developer Tasos Flambouras checked in on the official forums today with an update on the game's forthcoming expansion. The news is, shall we say, disappointing.

It seems the new world-terrain system is the monkey in the wrench of the PvE-focused expansion, and it has introduced a fair bit of instability into the updated client. With six months of work already invested in the expansion, much of it going towards sorely needed tweaks like dungeon and monster revamps, Aventurine is taking a cautious approach and sticking with the "not until it's ready" mantra.

"Realistically, we're looking at a few more weeks of work and testing on this. In the meanwhile we'll also use this time to add more features to the expansion and if possible further expand the dungeon update," Flambouras says.

As for a new estimated release date, things sound rather grim on that front as well. "We'll give you a new ETA as soon as we have a handle on what exactly is wrong and what needs to be done," Flambouras writes. Stick with Massively for further updates on the new Darkfall expansion as they happen.